Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)
Episode 44
An exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory, Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
Episode 32
We love the tradition of the Amsterdam red light district, where many women stand in the windows in their underwear. Busloads of tourists and school …
3 years, 3 months ago
Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
Episode 150
In A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer (Pegasus Crime, 2022), Deborah Larkin tells the incr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Episode 157
The essential contribution of The Woman with the Cure (Berkley Books, 2023) can be summarized in one sentence: like most of its future readers (I ass…
3 years, 3 months ago
Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Episode 95
At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as “the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . …
3 years, 3 months ago
Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 292
In the excellent expansive book, Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries (Oxford UP, 2022), Hadia Mubara…
3 years, 3 months ago
Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Episode 22
In this episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Sarah Carter on her book Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provin…
3 years, 3 months ago
Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Episode 45
"Comfort women" or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War. The role…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Episode 46
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing “others” under its sway—among them American In…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Episode 26
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against…
3 years, 4 months ago